What are WAHM's to do?

Not long ago the wahm world heard about Kelly and her family - due to the mortgage holder going into a retirement home, Kelly was facing losing her home and in order to avoid that, she needed to raise $13,000 US. That's a heck of a lot of money to a single work at home mom with children and one child being autistic.

The good news in this story is that with all of the support the online wahm community provided, even though the goal was far from reached, Kelly and her family are now able to stay in their home. My personal thanks to all that were involved in this huge undertaking (and yes, I was a contributor as well).

Now I have another online friend, one that I actually met offline last spring, that is in trouble. She's already been evicted from her home and right now, at this very minute is homeless. It's not like she can't get credit either - in fact, she had just secured a loan which was going to pay off the original loan (and the creditor for the orginal loan is the one that evicted them from their home). Now they can't reach the lawyer involved with the original loan to get this cleared up and may still be homeless through Christmas.

I've talked to soooo many other work at home moms that are suffering from dire financial problems, and I've been there myself.

My husband is self employed, and trying to find the money every month to pay the bills became just too much for us. We ended up filing for bankruptcy. I'm not ashamed of that in any way, shape or form -- it's just a fact of life. We kept trading debt for debt and weren't able to pay anything off. Being self employed, my husband makes darn good money but it just wasn't enough to support a family of four and pay all the monthly bills.

I received an instant message one day from another lady in extemely bad shape - again a single mom that had to send her child to friends houses in hopes the friends family would offer her child a meal.

This just doesn't sit well with me -- at all.

I think it's high time that we all agreed to help each other - whether we're reps for the same company or *competition*. I don't believe much in competition anymore however. To me, I can find some way to work with everyone without competing.

Ok... I'm off to sit down and do some research on a few things.

Blessings
Dianne